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eliminate English

Meaning eliminate meaning

What does eliminate mean?
Definitions in simple English

eliminate Verb

— If you eliminate something, you make it go away or disappear, or you kill it. The recent fixes have eliminated the problems we were having. Canada was eliminated in the first round of the world cup. He was at risk of being eliminated by the other gang members.

eliminate

— verb (= extinguish) terminate, end, or take out Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics Socialism extinguished these archaic customs eliminate my debts — verb (= obviate) do away with — verb (= wipe out) kill in large numbers the plague wiped out an entire population — verb (= rule out) dismiss from consideration or a contest John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration — verb (= pass) eliminate from the body Pass a kidney stone — verb remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations — verb remove from a contest or race The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race

Synonyms eliminate synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as eliminate?

eliminate English » English

remove get rid of eradicate destroy annihilate exterminate wipe out extinguish erase kill exclude delete purge obliterate waste expunge drive away do away with decimate abolish take away rid of reject murder extirpate excrete efface winnow out weed out terminate take out take off strike out obviate liquidate dispel cut off clear carry off cancel blot out write off toss strip stop slay separate sack rule out root out

Topics eliminate topics

What do people use eliminate to talk about?
Person Life Die

Kill
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Take something out of something
Physical actions Have, be with Keep something

Throw away

Conjugation eliminate conjugation

How do you conjugate eliminate?

eliminate · verb

Examples eliminate examples

How do I use eliminate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The government should take targeted measures to eliminate unemployment.
We need to find a way to eliminate him so that he doesn't tell on us.
If mankind doesn't take care of the environment, the environment may eliminate mankind.
Does a uniform eliminate class difference?
Many countries have signed a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons.
A computer spell checker could also eliminate most typing mistakes.
The American mission is to eliminate communism from the world.
This bridge will eliminate an hour delay for thousands of commuters.

Movie subtitles

On the bright side, we can eliminate Crazy Pete and Victoria Speigleman though.
It would've helped eliminate him as a suspect.
By getting them to become Santas, we could at least eliminate.
Trying to eliminate several scenarios.
THAT SORT OF TESTIMONY WE CAN ELIMINATE.
ELIMINATE, A NICE, COLD GLASS OF ELIMINATE.
It is the duty of every doctor to eliminate wars!
And how do you intend to eliminate wars?
The doctor only said he wanted to eliminate wars.
After all, you could eliminate all this difficulty if you'd set an early date for our marriage.
Every night we'll eliminate one person.
We may have to eliminate him and Claire.
We even tried to locate you. not to inform you of your legacy, but to eliminate you.
That testimony we can eliminate.
It is simple. I eliminate all guesswork.
It seems such a pity to eliminate Sherlock Holmes.
Well we can eliminate them.
We had to eliminate things that breed unrest and aggression.
You don't replace Nick Prentas. You eliminate them.
To arrest and eliminate them.
To eliminate them permanently!
Very early on, he decided that he would have the priest have a more direct connection with the murder and that it was done to eliminate a blackmailer who knew about an affair he had had with the wife of a prominent politician.
The body needs to eliminate its toxins.
I eliminate all guesswork.
Oh, that's too bad. That does eliminate your going on the Caribbean Queen.
But, I mean, I might be able to eliminate somebody who's not in.
I would regard it as a waste - if we didn't eliminate types like you. - Like you.
He was the only one who had reason to eliminate evidence of the transaction.
We agreed. We were supposed to support each other, to eliminate the rest.
I eliminate personal feeling.
They use it to eliminate commercials.
Based on Raymond's psychiatric pattern, I think we can safely eliminate jacks and kings.
We either eliminate this professor or this will be our ruin!

News and current affairs

Such systems cannot work, because they eliminate the capital market as the economic system's main steering mechanism.
Of course, no one simple change will eliminate the huge bias towards deficit spending in most modern political systems.
To ensure complete transparency in the tender process, and eliminate problems experienced in the past, Western advisors are assisting us.
Closing Chernobyl will not eliminate the Chernobyl threat.
Following this is the need to eliminate corporate welfare.
The best imaginable deal between the US and Mexico, or the best imaginable US immigration reform, will not eliminate the flow of undocumented migrants from Mexico and South America overnight.
Convincing great powers to eliminate their nuclear arsenals might seem as politically fanciful as pushing gun-control legislation through the US Congress, but on that issue, too, Obama has made clear that he is willing to try.
But a no-fly zone would eliminate airstrikes and save civilian lives.
International support for such efforts would mean giving African leaders and stakeholders the opportunity - and the responsibility - to eliminate underdevelopment and boost prosperity.
After all, Ukraine managed to eliminate its nuclear weapons and reach accommodation over the Black Sea fleet without joining a private economic bloc with Russia.
In the quid pro quo that followed, Qaddafi agreed to eliminate his nascent nuclear program in exchange for an end to pariah status.
These three measures, if applied to all banks, would eliminate the need for special rules governing liquidity or funding (which would remain open to supervisory review, but not to binding constraints).
Eliminate that and the result would be a leaderless mass.
Perhaps we will eventually reach a tipping point at which giving a significant amount to help the world's poorest becomes sufficiently widespread to eliminate the majority of those 25,000 needless daily deaths.
Our maladies are largely random, and even if our doctors cannot tell us which ones we will have in the next year, or eliminate all of our suffering when we have them, we are happy for the help that they can provide.
Moreover, they have called for a complete rethinking of deterrence strategy, in order to minimize, and ultimately eliminate, reliance on the most indiscriminately destructive weapons ever invented.
But Israel will be required to engage in peace talks only if the Palestinians crack down on terrorism - that is, risk another Fatah-Hamas civil war - and eliminate corruption.
A significant appreciation of the renminbi will reduce or even eliminate that growth subsidy.
But the ultimate solution, according to Bush, is the creation of fair and open political and economic systems that can eliminate anger and frustration through peaceful means.
Our challenge, therefore, is to boost the benefits and reduce (and eventually eliminate) the harm done by our cars, so that the future of motor travel is clean, efficient, safe, and accessible to all.
While NATO and the EU have improved their working relations, more steps need to be taken to eliminate mistrust, unhealthy competition, and information-sharing blockages.
As the main source of negative information that is not sensitive to power, the CDS market is feared, and politicians want to eliminate it.
The archaeology of early modern and Neanderthal populations suggests that we are not the chosen people who received from God the light, the divine mandate to go forth, multiply, and eliminate their subhuman neighbors.

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